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Still searching for ideas for Christmas morning menus, or for holiday desserts such as a Buche de Noel? Diane Morgan, author of “The Christmas Table: Recipes and Crafts to Create Your Own Holiday Tradition,” will be in town Friday and Saturday. Morgan will appear at three Metropolitan Market branches: On Friday, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., she’ll be at the Proctor market in Tacoma. On Saturday, she’ll be at the Sandpoint market from noon to 2 p.m., and she’ll be at the Admiral market in West Seattle from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. At the markets, Morgan will demonstrate holiday-ready recipes like her Butter Lettuce Salad With Satsuma Tangerines and Pomegranate Seeds. But if you go, I’d check out the chapter on edible holiday gifts (a topic close to our hearts) and the one on recipes that use up holiday leftovers.
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People keep talking about how you can save money at restaurants by sharing entrees, or ordering appetizers instead of entrees. Now, says the San Francisco Chronicle, there’s a name for that sort of customer. It’s called a “Non’trée” Dropping the cutesy fast, the Chron describes the situation this way:
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Meryl Schenker/P-I I can just about guarantee you will never buy another chocolate-coated graham cracker or pound of toffee at retail prices if you try out the homemade candy recipes featured in Wednesday’s P-I. I’ve been hoarding some of these wonderful — and simple — recipes to share with you since getting a copy of Charity Ferreira’s book “Brittles, Barks, & Bonbons” earlier this year, and it took some serious restraint (and a little copyright law) not to share even more. Ferreira, a former pastry chef who’s based in the Bay Area, kindly answered a few questions on making candy — a few ran in today’s story, the rest are below.
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